Sentences with phrase «subpolar area»

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

You can make contact with some of the concepts of «efficacy» and also retain a global mean perspective (see e.g., Hansen's work on the efficacy of climate forcing, or Kate Marvel's work looking at how 1 W / m2 expresses itself in different ways for different forcings) by noting that efficacy > 1 for OHU that is maximized in subpolar areas.

Not exact matches

My main argument that speaks for an anthropogenic influence is the long - term downward trend since 1930 inferred from the SST data in the subpolar Atlantic, and the fact that climate models driven by anthropogenic forcing predict just such a relatively cold patch in this same area.

After I read the Hatun et al paper I thought the major point of the paper was that ocean circulation and the subpolar gyre is an important but little understood factor in the THC and more research in the area was needed.

A region in the subpolar Atlantic has cooled over the past century — unique in the world for an area with reasonable data coverage (Fig. 1).

The atmosphere is continually transporting water horizontally from relatively arid regions (the subtropics in particular) to relatively wet regions (especially subpolar latitudes as well as tropical convergence zones and areas of monsoonal rains).

In the North Atlantic, the measured values differ markedly from the average global warming: the subpolar Atlantic (an area about half the size of the USA, south of Greenland) has hardly warmed up and in some cases even cooled down, contrary to the global warming trend.

With all that extra energy, more water is pulled out of the subtropic regions and moved toward higher - precipitation areas in the subpolar regions, resulting in stronger droughts and stronger storms.

Maybe it's helpful to have a look at the coincidence of the SST - Anomaly and the salinity of the area 40 - 65N; 40W - 0W (the subpolar region of the northatlantic): since 1975.